Clinical Specialist Emergency Department Full Time DaysShawnee, KS

Clinical Specialist

AdventHealth Shawnee Mission has been providing faith-based, whole-person care to the Kansas City community since 1962. Our team members, physicians, and volunteers extend the healing ministry of Christ each day through dedication to clinical excellence and uncommon compassion.

As the largest health care provider in Johnson County, we touch lives throughout our community at our locations in Lenexa, Shawnee Mission, and South Overland Park, and through our main campus AdventHealth Shawnee Mission in Merriam, which includes a cancer center, six physician office buildings, and an associate child-care center. We're also proud to have more than 30 specialized physicians serving at 15 primary and urgent care locations.

Joining our team means joining an important mission to serve others but can also serve your family well. Our team members enjoy superior health benefits, Magnet Recognition, tuition reimbursement, a generous Paid Days Off plan, and support in achieving your personal health goals through our Associate Wellness Department.

Every day, our fellow team members show up to work, unified by one shared mission: Extending the Healing Ministry of Jesus Christ. As a faith-based health care organization, our story is one of hope as we strive to heal and restore the body, mind, and spirit. Though our facilities are spread across the country, this unwavering belief binds us together. Across every office, exam, and patient room, we're committed to providing individualized, holistic care. This is our Christian mission, and it inspires us to help make communities healthier and happier.

The Clinical Specialist is founded upon the role of the Registered Nurse (RN) and the nursing process competencies of Assessment, Nursing Diagnosis, Outcome Identification, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation. The Clinical Specialist role is founded on the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists organizational framework and competencies.

The Clinical Specialist uses clinical expertise, critical thinking skills, collaboration, systems thinking, research, and transformational leadership to positively impact the outcomes of patient populations. The CNS/APN serves as consultant, collaborator, educator, researcher, innovator, and coach to facilitate patient care outcomes, process improvement initiatives, and staff development. Their influence may extend across the unit, department, facility, community, organizational, and national levels to contribute to outcomes and extending the body of nursing knowledge.

The value you'll bring to the team:

A. Direct Care Competency: direct interaction with patients, families, and groups of patients to promote health or well-being and improve quality of life. Characterized by a holistic perspective in advanced nursing management of health, illness, and disease states

B. Consultation Competency: patient, staff, or system focused interaction between professionals in which the consultant is recognized as having specialized expertise and assists consultee with problem solving

C. Systems Leadership Competency: The ability to manage change and empower others to influence clinical practice and political processes both within and across systems

D. Collaboration Competency: working jointly with others to optimize clinical outcomes the CNS/AP collaborates at an advanced level by committing to authentic engagement and constructive patient system and population-focused problem solving

E. Coaching Competency: Skillful guidance and teaching to advance the care of patients, families, groups of patients, and the profession of nursing

F. Research Competency: the work of thorough and systematic inquire. Includes the search for, interpretation, and use of evidence in clinical practice and quality improvement as well as active participation in the application and conduct of research.

G. Ethical Decision Making, Moral Agency, and Advocacy Competency: Identifying articulating and taking action on ethical concerns at the patient, family, health care provider, system, community, and public policy levels.

The expertise and experiences you'll need to succeed:

Kansas Registered Nurse License

BCLS obtained through the American Heart Association

Masters Degree

Evidence of clinical expertise in a patient care setting or specialty practice

Evidence of project management and/or process improvement

Evidence of transformational leadership in implementation of evidence-based practice

This facility is an equal opportunity employer and complies with federal, state, and local anti-discrimination laws, regulations, and ordinances.